Sergey Solodukhin (University of Tours)

Alexander Zhiboedov (Harvard University)

Description of the workshop:

The past few years were marked by significant
progress in understanding holography and the emergence of gravity. Locality in the bulk was formulated in terms of simple conditions in
Mellin space; Einstein gravity was shown to follow from unitarity, etc.

At the same time, remarkable progress has been made in understanding the crucial role played by the
asymptotic symmetries of flat spacetime in gravity and quantum field theory. This development has led to new methods in formulating
holography for asymptotically Minkowski spacetimes.

A third area which was recently marked by important achievements, is quantum entanglement. A proof for the holographic
formula of entanglement entropy was given, gravitational equations of motion were derived from entanglement entropy considerations,
bounds on quantum chaos and entanglement variables were formulated, etc.

Although seemingly different, these outstanding developments have a great deal in common; they are guided by
the quest for a detailed understanding of the emergence of gravity  via the holographic principle from quantum field theory.

Supported by HMI,
Simons Foundation, TCD Maths

Registration:

Registration is free of
charge but mandatory. Please email qft2017@maths.tcd.ie to register by April 30th.